Good Problems (Aug 10 2009)

Message boards : Technical News : Good Problems (Aug 10 2009)

Author	Message
Matt Lebofsky Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Mar 99 Posts: 1376 Credit: 74,079 RAC: 0	Message 925225 - Posted: 10 Aug 2009, 21:30:52 UTC
	Happy new work week (for those with "standard" work week formation)! The weekend was rather quiet - no major outages or glitches. We burned through all the data we have on line for Astropulse, but still have plenty to process for multibeam. We do have at least a couple drives containing hot, fresh data coming up from Arecibo any day now. We're also hoping the amount of time ALFA gets to observe actually increases, or else we'll always continually be dangerously close to being, if not completely, out of data to process. As far as problems/concerns go, this is a good one. I got the first rev of the daily cronjob running right now which creates an updated "top ten" candidate list (via the NTPCkr) to be parsed by some PHP for public consumption. It's running now, and taking a long time. I'll see how long it takes before making anything live, being as how we'd like to run this every day, but may be forced to pace it slower than that. As for radar blanking, I'm finding the correlations still aren't clearly defining which is radar and which isn't. I'm going to talk to Dan about that shortly. - Matt ____________ -- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person -- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude
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Ageless Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 11761 Credit: 2,076,279 RAC: 2,467	Message 925227 - Posted: 10 Aug 2009, 21:36:51 UTC - in response to Message 925225.
	Any idea what's up with the database on BOINC Dev, BOINC Wiki (not Trac though!), BOINC Alpha and CPlan, Matt? It's been down for a couple of hours now. ____________ Jord - BOINC FAQ Service - BOINC User Wiki Real is just a matter of perception.
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Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3509 Credit: 26,368,796 RAC: 17,454	Message 925229 - Posted: 10 Aug 2009, 21:42:10 UTC - in response to Message 925225.
	Thanks for the update Matt. Claggy
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Swibby Bear Send message Joined: 1 Aug 01 Posts: 236 Credit: 6,639,794 RAC: 2,138	Message 925248 - Posted: 10 Aug 2009, 23:33:06 UTC
	..... and, FYI, the assimiliators have been down for a couple of days.
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 1654 Credit: 64,320,351 RAC: 54,747	Message 925508 - Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 5:43:52 UTC
	Well it looks like the uploads are screwed again. :( ____________
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rob smith Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 5572 Credit: 22,632,861 RAC: 42,907	Message 925512 - Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 7:19:17 UTC
	Its been down for a few hours. Was down for maintenance at 21:47bst, and by 04:32bst I was logging HTTP errors. Since Matt lives in a different time zone to me I guess I'll have to wait for Matt to surface later today for a resolution. ____________ Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?
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S@NL - Eesger Send message Joined: 7 Oct 01 Posts: 384 Credit: 27,871,628 RAC: 21,830	Message 925516 - Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 7:42:06 UTC - in response to Message 925508. Last modified: 12 Aug 2009, 7:44:12 UTC
	Well it looks like the uploads are screwed again. :( The uploading part seems fine (now) at my end. (no work to download though). [edit] And as I read my own post, I'm downloading a few wu's :D [/edit] ____________ The SETI@Home Gauntlet 2012 april 16 - 30\| info / chat \| STATS
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KWSN THE Holy Hand Grenade! Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 20 Dec 05 Posts: 1614 Credit: 4,510,631 RAC: 3,144	Message 925581 - Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 15:54:02 UTC Last modified: 12 Aug 2009, 15:54:48 UTC
	Uploads seem fine at this writing (0851 PDT), but the assimilators need a kick - they've been falling seriously behind since Sunday! — now at 1.3M "waiting for assimilation" and growing... ____________ .
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 1654 Credit: 64,320,351 RAC: 54,747	Message 925655 - Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 20:36:58 UTC
	Well it seems there's more problems than that now. No uploads or downloads for the last 2hrs. ____________
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B-Man Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Feb 01 Posts: 253 Credit: 147,366 RAC: 0	Message 925700 - Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 23:01:55 UTC
	Uploads and Downloads look like they have maxed out again. As soon as the AP WU finish splitting it looks like it should improve a bit though we seem to be in the middle of a shortie storm. The Assimilators appear to have been offline since 8/10/2009. Matt as others have said please kick them or post a note in the Tech discussions thread today as to what is going on. ____________
	ID: 925700 ·

Rev. Tim Olivera Send message Joined: 15 Jan 06 Posts: 20 Credit: 1,717,714 RAC: 0	Message 926572 - Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 19:49:55 UTC
	You guys only hear from me when I think something is worng :) so why have my computer said "Boinc is currently IDLE" for the last 4 days?? Somethinbg wrong? Rev. Tim Olivera ____________
	ID: 926572 ·

Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7669 Credit: 40,263,009 RAC: 21,588	Message 926587 - Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 21:22:26 UTC - in response to Message 926572.
	So why have my computer said "Boinc is currently IDLE" for the last 4 days?? Somethinbg wrong? Rev. Tim Olivera Because you haven't joined any other project, even as a backup?
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Bernie Vine Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 26 May 99 Posts: 5798 Credit: 15,305,307 RAC: 31,050	Message 926624 - Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 23:12:55 UTC - in response to Message 926572.
	You guys only hear from me when I think something is worng :) so why have my computer said "Boinc is currently IDLE" for the last 4 days?? Somethinbg wrong? Rev. Tim Olivera Yes I would say something is wrong at your end, you seem to have 2 nearly identical quads HERE The first still has 2 tasks to return, and the second hasn't contacted SETI@Home since 2/8 and has 4 tasks to return. My main machine is a quad that crunches 24/7 seti only, has a 1.5 day cache and hasn't run out of work yet. Currently has 23 2hr 36min wus to crunch, so possibly you need to check you settings. Bernie ____________
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Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Apr 02 Posts: 12012 Credit: 19,602,027 RAC: 43,728	Message 926657 - Posted: 17 Aug 2009, 0:34:59 UTC - in response to Message 926572.
	You guys only hear from me when I think something is worng :) so why have my computer said "Boinc is currently IDLE" for the last 4 days?? Somethinbg wrong? Rev. Tim Olivera At first it's like your cousin who only comes over to tell you how much you screwed up. You start to become ambivalent toward your cousin because nothing nice ever comes out of seeing him/her. Then you start to realize that this is still a family member, and you devilishly figure out that if you screw up purposely, you at least get to see your cousin. That's what we did. We stopped all the processes on the server just to see you come and visit us! :) ____________
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1mp0£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 926678 - Posted: 17 Aug 2009, 2:45:22 UTC - in response to Message 926657.
	You guys only hear from me when I think something is worng :) so why have my computer said "Boinc is currently IDLE" for the last 4 days?? Somethinbg wrong? Rev. Tim Olivera At first it's like your cousin who only comes over to tell you how much you screwed up. You start to become ambivalent toward your cousin because nothing nice ever comes out of seeing him/her. Then you start to realize that this is still a family member, and you devilishly figure out that if you screw up purposely, you at least get to see your cousin. That's what we did. We stopped all the processes on the server just to see you come and visit us! :) We sure don't see the Reverend very often. Three posts in the past year, including today. I always find his sermons of hope and patience to be so uplifting. ____________
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Mack Send message Joined: 30 Mar 01 Posts: 4 Credit: 906,972 RAC: 0	Message 926695 - Posted: 17 Aug 2009, 4:20:04 UTC Last modified: 17 Aug 2009, 4:21:05 UTC
	I haven't received any SETI units for several days and I certainly am glad that I have Rosetta running too. I'm not a programmer, but the Electrical Engineer in me doesn't understand the constant problems that we experience with SETI. Mack ____________
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1mp0£173 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0	Message 926699 - Posted: 17 Aug 2009, 4:36:42 UTC - in response to Message 926695.
	I haven't received any SETI units for several days and I certainly am glad that I have Rosetta running too. I'm not a programmer, but the Electrical Engineer in me doesn't understand the constant problems that we experience with SETI. Mack Shouldn't be that tough to understand. When you design a circuit, and it needs to be reliable, you choose components and designs with plenty of margin. If your main goal is to do as much as possible at minimum cost, you can try to get by with less. What you don't see in Electronics that you can do in software is exceed the load, and then build features into the software (the BOINC client) to mitigate the problems when you're running near (or just beyond) 100%. As I write this, work is being produced, but just slightly slower than demand. I have a little bit of new work today, but it a back up is always a good idea. ____________
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